Financial support

Marta Vergílio would like to thank the Azorean Regional Fund for Science and Technology and the Pro-Emprego for funding the PhD Project M3.1.2/F/007/2011. The authors would like to thank the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), for funding the project PTDC/AAC-AMB/098786/2008. This work was also funded by FEDER funds through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors - COMPETE and by National Funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology under the project No. FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-037300 (Ref. FCT PEst- C / BIA / UI0609 / 2013), UID/BIA/50027/2013, and POCI-01-0145-FEDER-00682. Data on species distributions was gathered based on the European Union projects INTERREGIII B “ATLÂNTICO” (2004–2006) and BIONATURA (2006–2008), and, more recently, ATLANTISMAR - “Mapping coastal and marine biodiversity of the Azores” (Ref: M2.1.2/I/027/2011). The climatic modeling work of EBA was developed in the framework of the project “EstraMAR” (MAC/3/C177), which was supported by the European Union through the MAC Transnational Program of Cooperation – Madeira-Azores-Canaries.